A number of long-term facilities in Korea have been providing long-term care to geriatric patients who were supported by the long-term care insurance system introduced in 2008. However, some people have made bad use of managing the facilities as a means of earning money instead of providing professional care services to geriatric patients. It was stated that the authorities of the central as well as local government and the Korean National Health Insurance Service, long-term care providers, the concerned parties of long-term facilities, and recipients of the long-term care should feel more responsible for monitoring or managing quality of care services than now in order to prevent lack of service quality that was providing to geriatric patients of the facilities in this editorial.
We compared awareness of functional recovery care among employees of welfare facilities for older persons in Japan and South Korea, with the aim of obtaining basic materials to develop an education program for functional recovery care, which is also useful for other countries. We conducted a questionnaire survey in both countries, sending 2,000 and 254 copies of a questionnaire to 200 Japanese and 5 Korean facilities, respectively, and obtaining 540 (valid response rate: 27.0%) and 220 (86.6%) valid responses from them, respectively. An older age, higher proportion of non-regular employees, and similar or higher level of awareness of the necessity of expertise and support were characteristic of Korean compared with Japanese care workers. The results support the feasibility of providing education for functional recovery care based on basic medicine in South Korea. It may be necessary to develop a practical education program for the dissemination of functional recovery care through active collaboration with Korean researchers. <Key-words> functional recovery care (FRC), Japan, South Korea, employees of welfare facilities for older persons, education program
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